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The 24 trades made Monday that moved 43 players in the hours before the NHL trading deadline were more strategic than splashy, nothing that justified the hype that has grown around this annual day of reckoning and nothing that will immediately transform a franchise. The price of doing business was hefty — Tampa Bay gave Philadelphia first- and third-round draft picks for Braydon Coburn, a middling defenseman on a bad team — but several teams turned assets into potential postseason depth, led by Detroit, Montreal and the Ducks. Others, like Arizona and Buffalo, conceded the season and looked to the future by collecting prospects and draft picks. "Every year it just goes...

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The 24 trades made Monday that moved 43 players in the hours before the NHL trading deadline were more strategic than splashy, nothing that justified the hype that has grown around this annual day of reckoning and nothing that will immediately transform a...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the past week:
+ Defenseman Cody Franson drew widespread interest before the league-leading Nashville Predators acquired him and right wing Mike Santorelli from Toronto for...

This was no garden-variety hat trick finished off with a cheap empty-netter.
Youngster Tyler Toffoli carried it off with style and meaning.
Toffoli recorded his first career hat trick with the aplomb and touch of a gifted goal-scorer, leading the...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the past week:
+ Continuing his remarkable recovery from a stroke, Gordie Howe attended a dinner last week in Saskatoon, Canada, where a rink was named for him. Howe, who will be...

Shaved, shorn and suavely suited, Kings players and staffers gathered onstage in the White House East room Monday and smiled politely as President Obama joked how unfortunate it was that they had defeated his hometown Chicago Blackhawks on the way to...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the last week:
+ The All-Star break interrupted five-game winning streaks for the Ducks, Detroit and Winnipeg. That success put the Ducks atop the NHL with 68 points, moved the...

Kings Coach Darryl Sutter painted a vivid picture when asked last week about his players' struggles to defend their championship.
"They have to keep understanding and listening to what I'm telling them about how tough it is," he said. "The...

The Calgary Flames' season was hanging by a thread when they faced the Kings at Staples Center on Dec. 22. After a strong start, the Flames had fallen into an 0-7-1 slump, the kind of frustration that challenges players' character, belief and patience.
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The NHL is investigating circumstances of a Ducks practice held Friday during the league's mandated three-day holiday period, the team confirmed Monday.
General Manager Bob Murray said the practice was arranged by team captain Ryan Getzlaf without any...

Ducks right wing Corey Perry did not join the Ducks on their post-holiday trip to Arizona on Saturday, deciding to let at least one more game pass before returning from a sprained knee suffered Dec. 5.
“No setbacks, just not ready yet,” Ducks Coach...

As he had done most of Saturday night, Ducks goalie Frederik Andersen stopped the dark object sailing toward him.
But, in the final, strange instance, the puck dribbled past him to the left — to the net — giving the Arizona Coyotes a 2-1 shootout victory...

A good day turned into an excellent one for Kings defenseman Alec Martinez on Wednesday.
First, he suffered no ill effects from his return to the lineup Tuesday night against Boston after being sidelined because of an injured finger. Then he practiced...

History meant nothing to the Kings on Thursday, except for the lasting feat their backup goalie is compiling.
As his team ended a five-game losing streak to the Arizona Coyotes and humbled troublesome opposing goalie Mike Smith in a 4-0 victory, Kings...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the past week:
+ It was fitting that the family of Montreal Canadiens legend Jean Beliveau, who died last week at 83, allowed fans to share the final public celebration of his...

Viktor Tikhonov, the stern hockey coach who led the Soviet Union's "Big Red Machine" to three Olympic gold medals and eight world championships but was on the losing side when Herb Brooks' American college kids pulled off the "Miracle on...

Last week's trade for veteran winger Rene Bourque left the Ducks struggling to find playing time for their 15 forwards, a problem the team rectified Monday by reassigning left wing Emerson Etem and center William Karlsson to the Norfolk Admirals of the...

Ryan Getzlaf returned to practice Thursday, the Ducks center expecting to play Friday against the Arizona Coyotes after he and first-line mate Corey Perry surprisingly missed Wednesday's overtime loss because of flu symptoms.
The recovery schedule for...

Ducks right wing Corey Perry will need at least one more game off to recover from flu, Coach Bruce Boudreau said Friday following the team’s morning skate without Perry at Honda Center.
Perry, leading the NHL with 11 goals, was a late scratch Wednesday...

Chances and a point slipped away from the Ducks on Friday, as they let a two-goal lead vanish and lost in a shootout to the Arizona Coyotes.
“If we score the goals we should be scoring, we win the game,” said Ducks forward Andrew Cogliano, among those...

The Ducks had only two three-game stretches at home without a victory all of last season, and those slumps came in February and March.
This is far from panic time. The Ducks (10-3-2) own the best record in the NHL and have a Sunday showdown with...